The Three Amigos are back with a fantastic show this week featuring UFC women’s strawweight star, “Rowdy” Bec Rawlings, UFC middleweight champion, Luke Rockhold, newly signed Bellator heavyweight star, Matt Mitrione and weight cutting specialist, George Lockhart.
Welcome to your weekly dose of Three Amigos Podcast fun. This episode is loaded with great content, courtesy of our special guests, UFC women’s strawweight attraction, “Rowdy” Bec Rawlings, former UFC heavyweight and newly signed Bellator star, Matt Mitrione and UFC middleweight champion, Luke Rockhold. We’ve also got the 18th installment of the Weight List with George Lockhart and our own Iain Kidd.
Here is a summary of each interview segment, complete with the time stamps for when each interview or special segment begins. As always, we hope you enjoy listening to the show as much as we enjoyed recording it.
This week’s installment of the Weight List (segment starts at the 14:30 mark of the audio) focuses on:
-George working with Cris Cyborg again
-Diets specifically geared towards women vs diets geared specifically towards men
-Vegetarian/Vegan/Pescetarian diets
If you have a question you’d like to submit to The Weight List Mailbag, please e-mail [email protected] or shoot him a tweet @iainkidd. You can also drop your question off on our Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/threeamigospodcast
UFC women’s strawweight star, “Rowdy” Bec Rawlings (interview starts at the 47:55 mark of the audio) stopped by to discuss:
-Upcoming fight with Seo Hee Ham
-How her weight cut has been since the long layoff
-Nature of her femoral injury
-What Dominick Cruz is like during training camps
-Thoughts on free agency
-Safety precautions for her breast augmentation
-The embarrassing flaw in Reebok’s weigh-in attire
-Sponsor landscape now that the Reebok Deal is in full swing
-Thoughts on Paige VanZant saying she wished she would’ve taken a nap instead of tapping out
-If she feels her UFC 2 game character is accurate
-Why she went brunette
-The most difficult part of her career journey
-If she’s in a better place after having several serious challenges in her personal life
-What’s really bugging/annoying her about the sport right now
Former UFC heavyweight and newly signed Bellator star, Matt Mitrione (interview starts at the 1:17:40 mark of the audio) sat in with the Amigos to discuss:
-New Bellator contract
-How much negotiating was done
-If he is still self-managed
-If he feels poor athlete management is largely at fault for the current sponsor climate
-If he’s started fielding new offers from sponsors yet
-If he feels free agency is catching a real foothold in the sport
-If he would’ve chosen MMA or football directly out of college
-Thoughts on a rematch with Kongo
-If a potential fight with Fedor was a factor in his signing with Bellator
-Details on his filing with the athletic commission
-If he feels Conor McGregor still has the same bargaining power as he did before his loss to Diaz
-Thoughts on McGregor/Diaz
-Thoughts on Holm/Tate
-If he feels MMA may start seeing more “team sport” guys from the NFL, NBA and hockey populating the heavyweight division
UFC middleweight champion, Luke Rockhold (interview starts at the 2:03:15 mark of the audio) took over the guest chair to discuss:
-Why he decided to sign on as the main event of UFC 199 after having previous misgivings about the card
-If he’s steal feeling critical of his performance in the Weidman fight
-What knowledge he took away from the fight about Weidman
-His thoughts on Weidman’s flip-flop comments first declaring that Luke was the better man that night, then saying that his loss was a fluke
-What he thought of Weidman’s amped up attitude and comments at the UFC Unlimited press conference
The hosts discussed:
-Free agency
-This past weekend’s Invicta card
-Favorite moments from the card
–Jessamyn Duke still being under UFC contract vs. Angela Hill being cut from the roster
-Bellator suspensions of Ken Shamrock and Kimbo Slice
-WSOF suspension of Justin Gaethje for doing a backflip off the cage
-Super Tuesday political discussion
–UFC 196 PPV buy rates
-Staff prediction standings (Stephie still in the lead)
-Predictions for the upcoming UFC Brisbane card
-Mookie being cheated out of his Happy Meal toy
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